Objection to unsolicited commercial messages

We hereby object to the use of our contact data published in accordance with a website operator’s legal duty to provide this information in the legal notice for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and informational material. The operators of this website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in case of receiving unsolicited advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

Data protection officer

Cookies

Parts of our website make use of so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your computer and stored by your browser.

Most of the cookies used by us are so-called “session cookies.” They are automatically deleted once you leave the website. Other cookies will remain on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser whenever you return to our website.

You can adjust your browser settings to notify you about the placement of cookies and to only accept cookies on a case-by-case basis, to accept cookies in certain specified cases or to generally decline cookies, and/or to automatically delete cookies every time you close your browser. Deactivating cookies may restrict the functionality of this website.

These data cannot be matched to specific individuals. They are not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to subsequently check these data if there are specific indications of unlawful use.

Contact form

If you send inquiries to us using the contact form, your details from the form, including the contact details you entered, will be stored by us in order to process your inquiry and for possible follow-up questions. We will not forward this information without your consent.

Piwik web analytics

This website uses the open source web analytics tool Piwik. Piwik relies on browser cookies to analyse your usage of this website. The site usage statistics generated through these cookies are stored on our server. IP addresses are anonymised before being stored.

The site usage statistics generated through these cookies are not transferred to any third parties. Cookie storage can be prevented with the corresponding browser configuration setting. However, in that case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

If you do not agree to have your page views included in these site statistics you have several choices:

In case your browser supports the "Do-Not-Track" setting and you have this setting enabled, your visit will be automatically excluded from the statistical analysis.

Alternatively, you can store an opt-out cookie in your browser which prevents Piwik from collecting information about your site visit. However, this opt-out cookie will be deleted when clearing your browser cookies. Therefore it has to be re-set on your next visit of our site.

Mapbox

Some subpages of this website use Mapbox tiles to display interactive maps. The Mapbox Tiles API is a service of Mapbox Inc. (Mapbox). When viewing Mapbox maps, information about your visit on this site, including your IP address, may be transferred to Mapbox in the US and may be stored there.

When you open a page containing Mapbox maps, your browser creates a direct connection to Mapbox's servers. Your browser fetches the map content directly from Mapbox and seamlessly inserts it into the current web page. Therefore we have no influence over the extent and handling of data that may be collected by Mapbox in the process.

In order to prevent Mapbox from collecting data about you while visiting our site you can disable Javascript in your browser settings. This will disable the embedded maps as well as some other features of our web site.